On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:59:04PM +0000, Fergal Daly wrote: > > Darcs runs on non-Unix. 2>&1 is not cross-platform. > > I ported something form linux to win not so long ago and it worked. Googling > for > > "2>&1" windows > > turns a few batch files that use it and also > > http://mailman.lyra.org/pipermail/scintilla-interest/2002-September/001629.html > > which claims it's OK for NT and 2000 but not for Win 9x.
>From my MakeMaker experiences its not portable. I have portable ways of doing it mostly involving redirecting STDERR to STDOUT inside Perl and then running the command. > Anyway, darcs is already expecting a bash-like shell for configure and GHC > needs mingw. I'm not too familiar with win but it should be possible to > twiddle the command line so that even on win 9x the system() call ends up in > bash rather than command.com but I don't imagine too many people are use > darcs and win 9x, One doesn't want to discourage it further.
